Monday, October 26, 2015

Catching Dreams

Last week, on yet another beautiful autumn day, I loaded the car up with snacks, colouring pencils and paper, audio books, and two kids, Reece, and his little homeschooling friend, and we traveled to Little City Farm for another gathering of like minded families. This time the workshop involved making dream catchers. Little hands worked carefully to shape dogwood branches into a circle, and then string was used to create intricate designs. Later beads and feathers were added. Our instructor shared with everyone the best place to hang them, and explained that bad dreams will get caught in the dream catcher, and good dreams will be allowed to float right on through.

It was, as always, a very enjoyable afternoon, filled with fun, crafting, and a little play to finish the afternoon. I can't tell you how much I enjoy our trips to Little City Farm, they fill me up in ways I can't explain, and make me feel connected to a wonderful community of people.

I love all of your crafty goodness lately, the beeswax leaves and the dreamcatchers both look so wonderful. I'm glad you guys had a good weekend. Love the picture of your little guy in your 43/52 post, can't believe he's almost 8! Have a great week! xo

Very nice dream catchers. I always loved making those kind of things...many moons ago :)It's so nice to find a group of like minded people. We've been very lucky, finding other parents with similar outlooks.

We are going to try this. Mattheus won't sleep without the dream catcher he received from his Nana--too much anxiety around bad dreams! I am sure he would love making his own and we have lots of chicken feathers to collect this time of year. Thanks for sharing :) xoxo

love this!!! dream catchers have been on my craft list for over a year now. one of these days :) i was inspired by one that i brought back for my daughter from the mexican carribean... i love it so much... one lady told me the strange piece in the middle was "the eye of the bull" at least i think that's what she said she was speaking quite fast and all in spanish... i am still not sure though whether it's really a bull's eye or metaphorically the bull's eye...? i actually posted a picture of it in my last post if your curious :)

This looks so fun! We are into our Native American block right now and doing lots of things along these lines too. Yesterday, in fact, we went to a Three Sisters harvest festival. It was amazing, we watched traditional basket weaving, wood carving, beading, dancing and drumming. Tons of hands on stuff for the kids too. I felt community there as well that I have been needing.

Yes, I feel very lucky to have so many like minded families for us to connect with. It does make this path a lot more fun to travel when others are along for the ride too :) I hope you find your tribe my friend. xo

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